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The wife of an extremist who travelled from his home in Britain to launch a suicide attack in Sweden has insisted she knew nothing of his plans.

Bomb: Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly (AFP/Getty)

Mona Thwany, who lived in Luton with Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly and their three children, said she was ‘devastated and upset’ by his death.

He was killed in Stockholm on Saturday when he detonated an explosive belt strapped to his chest and set off a car bomb, injuring two people.

Mrs Thwany, a 28-year-old beauty stylist, said ‘of course’ she knew nothing of the attack, before being escorted from her house by police on Sunday.

It is believed Iraqi-born al-Abdaly led a secretive double life between Britain and his adopted home of Sweden. In a letter to police before his death, he pleaded with his family for forgiveness over his lies.

He also apologised to his family for saying he had visited the Middle East for a job when really he was going for the sake of jihad.

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However, the former Bedfordshire University student was known to members of the Luton Islamic Centre who yesterday revealed they had banned him for his extremist views.

Chairman of the mosque Qadeer Baksh said he left after he was challenged over his ‘alien’ views over the teachings of the Koran and his attempts to convert others to his way of thinking.

‘I dissected his view. He took a dislike to that. He got very upset. He just got up and he stormed out and we never heard from him again after that,’ he said.

But another member of the mosque said: ‘Nothing pointed to the fact that he was going to do something stupid.’

In a message from beyond the grave, al-Abdaly called for similar suicide attacks across Europe, according to an online Islamic forum.

Before the attacks, a man believed to be al-Abdaly appeared in an audio message condemning Sweden for supporting the war in Afghanistan and for an artist’s cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.